Graeme N. Candlish

Departamento de Astronomía Phone: +56(9)5102 8814 Universidad de Chile Email: [email protected] Casilla 36-D Santiago, Chile Nationality: British Languages: English, advanced Spanish

Research Interests

Computational astrophysics, gravitational physics, cosmology, black holes

Education

Ph.D. Physics, University of Nottingham, UK, 2010. Thesis: “Aspects of Supersymmetric Multi-black holes in String Theory”. Supervisor: Prof. Harvey Reall Co-supervisor: Prof. Ed Copeland MSc (Distinction) Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces, Imperial College London, UK, 2005. BSc (Honours) Astrophysics, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2002.

Work Experience

Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Astronomía, Postdoctoral researcher, November 2015–Present. Universidad de Concepción, Departamento de Astronomía, FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellow, November 2012–September 2015. UK Meteorological Office, Research Scientist (Numerical Weather Prediction) August 2010–September 2012. QinetiQ UK, Operational Analyst, January 2004–October 2004.

Research Peer-Reviewed Publications 1. G. N. Candlish, R. Smith, C. Moni Bidin, B. K. Gibson (2015). Weighing the Galactic disk: lessons from simulations. Accepted to MNRAS 2. R. Smith, R. Sanchez-Janssen, M. A. Beasley, G. N. Candlish, B. K. Gibson, T. H. Puzia, J. Janz, A. Knebe, J. A. L. Aguerri, T. Lisker, G. Hensler, M. Fellhauer, L. Ferrarese, S. K. Yi (2015). The Sensitivity of Harass- ment to Orbit: Mass Loss from Early-Type Dwarfs in Galaxy Clusters. MNRAS, 454, 2502 3. J.P. Farias, R. Smith, M. Fellhauer, S. Goodwin, G.N. Candlish, M. Blaña, R. Dominguez (2015). The difficult early stages of embedded star clusters and the importance of the pre-gas expulsion virial ratio. MNRAS, 450, 2451 4. R. Smith, C. Flynn, G.N. Candlish, M. Fellhauer, B.K. Gibson (2015). Simple and accurate modelling of the gravitational potential produced by thick and thin exponential disks. MNRAS, 448, 2934 5. Y.L. Jaffé, R. Smith, G.N. Candlish, B.M. Poggianti, Y.-K. Sheen, M. Verheijen (2015). BUDHIES II: A phase-space view of gas stripping and galaxy quenching in a cluster at z 0.2. MNRAS, 448, 1715 Graeme N. Candlish 2

6. G.N. Candlish, R. Smith, M. Fellhauer (2015). RAyMOND: An N-body and hydrodynamics code for MOND. MNRAS, 446, 1060 7. M. Blana, M. Fellhauer, R. Smith, G.N. Candlish, R. Cohen, J.P. Farias (2015). Life and death of a hero - Lessons learned from modeling the dwarf spheroidal Hercules: an incorrect orbit? MNRAS, 446, 144 8. G.N. Candlish, R. Smith, M. Fellhauer, B.K. Gibson, P. Kroupa, P. Assmann (2014). Phase mixing due to the Galactic potential: steps in the position and velocity distributions of popped star clusters. MNRAS, 437, 3702. 9. R. Smith, P.A. Duc, G.N. Candlish, M. Fellhauer, Y.-K. Sheen, B.K. Gibson (2013). The influence of ram pressure on the evolution of tidal dwarf galaxies. MNRAS, 436, 839. 10. R. Smith, M. Fellhauer, G.N. Candlish, R. Wojtak, J.P. Farias, M. Blaña (2013). Ursa Major II - reproducing the observed properties through tidal disruption. MNRAS, 433, 2529. 11. G.N. Candlish (2010). On the smoothness of the multi-BMPV black hole spacetime. CQG, 27, 065005. 12. G.N. Candlish & H.S. Reall (2007). On the smoothness of static multi-black hole solutions of higher dimen- sional Einstein-Maxwell theory. CQG 24, 6025.

Conference Proceedings 13. C. Moni Bidin, G. N. Candlish, R. Smith (2015). The three-dimensional equations for the local Galactic mass density. Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, 46, 107 14. G.N. Candlish, R. Smith, M. Fellhauer, B.K. Gibson, P. Kroupa, P. Assmann (2014). Phase mixing in popping star clusters. Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, 44, 150 15. G.N. Candlish, N. Law, P. Bett, R. Clark, H. Thornton, C. Wilson (2012). Interannual wind variation from observations and numerical weather analyses. European Wind Energy Association 2012

Selected Talks

Seminar, Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile, June 30, 2015, “Simulations of Modified Gravity” Workshop on Numerical Models and Simulations, Universidad de Andres Bello, May 4, 2015, “Simulating galaxy interactions in MOND” XII Annual Meeting, Sociedad Chilena de Astronomía, Puerto Varas, March 14, 2015, “Putting MOND to the test” Seminar, University of Central Lancashire, UK, “Modified gravity simulations and galaxy evolution in clusters (a talk in two parts),” January 28, 2015 ESO Workshop, Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters, Santiago, Chile, “Phase mixing after a star cluster pops,” May 14, 2014 4th VVV Meeting, Viña del Mar, Chile, “Investigating the Christmas Tree: Structures in the Phase Space of Popping Star Clusters,” March 21, 2013 BritGrav 9 Conference, University of Cardiff, UK, “Smoothness of higher dimensional multi-black hole hori- zons,” April 15, 2009 Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK, “Smoothness of multi-black hole horizons,” November 23, 2007

Recent Conference Participation

SOCHIAS 2015, Puerto Varas, Chile, March 2015 MODEST 15, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, March 2015 Beyond ΛCDM, Oslo, Norway, January 2015 Graeme N. Candlish 3

3rd Workshop on Numerical and Observational Astrophysics: Linking the Local to the Early Universe, IAFE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2014 Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters, ESO Santiago, Chile, May 2014 Meeting on the Horizon, Pontificia Universidad Cátolica de Valparaiso, Chile, March 2014 Latin American Regional IAU Meeting, Florianapolis, Brazil, November 2013 Deconstructing Galaxies (MORPH2013), ESO Santiago, Chile, November 2013

Teaching

Cosmology (final year undergraduate) 6 lectures, June 2014. Stellar dynamics (undergraduate) 1 lecture, November 2013. Informal string theory course (astronomy PhD students) 10 lectures, 2008. Demonstration in undergraduate physics tutorial classes, 2007. Demonstration in first year undergraduate physics laboratory, 2005.

Student Supervision

Nelvy Choque (Magister student) co-supervisor, “When groups fall into clusters: insights from cosmological simulations,” 2014-2015.

Journal Refereeing

Referee for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Fellowships & Awards

Awarded FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013. Outstanding business award, UK Met Office, 2011. Best Student Talk award (BritGrav 9 conference), Institute of Physics UK, 2009.

Outreach Activities

Astronomy outreach event with Fundación Gestión Vivienda, Talca, Chile, February 2013. Public lecture, “Black Holes”, University of Nottingham, UK, July 2010.

Miscellaneous

Programming Languages: Fortran, Python, R, C, C++. Graeme N. Candlish 4

Referees

Prof. Ed Copeland School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. (Tel: +44 (0) 115 951 5164) Email: [email protected]

Prof. Brad Gibson E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK. (Tel: +44 (0) 1482 465105) Email: [email protected]

Prof. Michael Fellhauer Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile. (Tel: +56 41 220 3438) Email: [email protected]